The Cambria Daily Leader

WHAT CAN GERMANY 1 PAY? There is said to be "growing un- rest in the House of Commons with regard to the payment of in demmties by the enemy, especially among the out-and-outers who claim that Germany and her Allies can be made to pay the whole cost of the war. The Government attitude may He interpreted from the fol lowing dialogue which took place j last week between Mr. Bonar LHIW and Lieutenant-Colonel Lowt her:— Mr. Bonar Law: Has he any idea of the total coit of the war and the damage ot the w&r to all the nations en?agfd m it'?, -Li<'utcnant-Colond Lowther: ?cs, cer tamly. Yes, ce_r-i ii? he made any calculation of that in his ova Ulllld r- ee. Is he a ware that it is impossible under any CM re uiu stances for Genuany to pay the whc?e 01 it?-l have made the deepest calculations, and it is perfectly possible j ii you hypothecate the assets of that j potentially ricil country for 25 years, I i.ope it will go Lor a longer period j I than taa l.- Very well; make it longer. I shau be very interfaced to see tiie eylcu.au.on, and perhaps ho will have the j kindness to &end it to me; it might iielp us.— With pleasure; but I do not see « ho good of this satire. Lieut. -Col Lowther has sent on his calculations to the Uovermneat, and uis memorandum is being circu- j lated to every member 01 iJarii-x- j iiient. I The view of the average man Is that Germany must be^made to pay j all she can, without reducing her to j such economic straits as wui deieat the demand. The average man has no feeling of tenderness tow aids the j Boche He regards the matter rib one of plain business, and he has j no sympathy with the utterances of [ such as Mr. E. D. Morel, of the Union of Democratic Control, who j wurns us that The policy of making Germany pay i for the war will, if persisted „n, ini'al- iihly lead to open breach between is; and the UiiitNI States. A passionate fury will be kindled in the breasts of eighty milEnn Germans. The existence of th'? Ipolicy will make a settled and p<-a<?ful Europe utterly iD1íble. The League of Nations will vanish like a dream. No one who has seen the wasted lands and towns of Belgium and northern France will worry about the passionate fury in the Ger- man breast. We have withstood nearly five years of that "passionate fury, and are not going to be in timidated by it now Those who have looked upon ruined Ypres, and Arras, and Albert, and a hundred j villages, and have realised the de- liberate policy of destruction praü- tised by the Germans, will think it ■ inconceivable that the Allies should pardon the bill. j But how much can Germany pay? Can she be compelled to pay for all the ruin she has created and for all the loss she has caused ? A.n English press correspondent in Par's states that to realise the absurdity j of the pretension that "Germany will pay everything," it is only! necessary to quote two figures: I (1) It is computed that the war debts j of the world are over 30,000 millions sterling; (2) At 6 per cent., this amounts to an annual interest of 1,800 millions. j It should be realised," says th correspondent,, "that if Germany were called upon to pay this unim- agina, o sum she would be sending 1,800 millions out of her country every year without reducing the debt. And sending 1,800 millions out of a country is, of course, a very different thing from spending | 1,800 millions in the country. The | whole thing is palpably ridiculous, and it is a sign of sanity that it Is j recognised as such." j Weare further told that the authoritative British view of "re- paration in Paris is that the idea j of getting our war debts repaid by Germany is scouted as grotesque. It is merely a piece of pleasant non- sense which no expert in no country arled in by the authorities to pre- pare a statement or to express an opinion entertains for a moment. It only remains to give the wild notion now definitely dead decent interment On the other hand, it is thought probable that there nx y be —unless Germany runs amuck— enough to satisfy moderate claims for actual material damage- specifl. ally caused by the wanton policy of destructivenefcs of Germany. Ger- many is held to be able to pay that, and will be made to pay that. This statement should be modified by the proviso that Germany must neces sarily be given the opportunity of making good, and that there must be no new break-up which would be j irremediable in Germany. Granted a ptnble Government and the j speedy reorganisation of the Ger- j ■nan people as an indnstrinl nation, j he miin claims wb'^h (--rre purelv mdrr the strict head of reparations mny be met. Such is alleged to be the authori native view. It is a view whi"h will lead to disappointment But! when we consider Vvhat an enormous i .sum is included in the term repai-a tions-the rebuilding of Belgium j nnd other ruined lands, and com- pensation for destruction in othor forms wilfully inflicted—we will see that Germany will long feel th? pinch of her evil-doing. She is n,)t being left off lightly by this verdict of the court; and we all cling to the hope that in some way yet undis- covered. she will be made to pay hr all the evil she has wrought on the" world.

THROUGH A COTTAGE WINDOW. XII.-The Miners and The People. By GEORGE W. GOUCH. I shall write this week on the assump- tion that there will be no miners' strike, and I shall make that assumption because the Government has adopted as the basis of its mining policy the report signed by Mr. Just.ce Sankey and the only three members of the Coal Commission who hadj or even pretended to have, minds open to an unbiassed consideration of the evi- dence. All of us who are neither coal- miners nor ooal-owncrs, and we are by far the greater aulubcr, something like twenty to one of the whole population, must sup- pose that if we had been able to hear all the evidence with the same close atten- tion and the same fine mental equipment. we should have come to the same conclu- sions. The rtr-,ult is that the miners havt- g.vin&d a great victory. The inference k, that they will be content. There are amongst them half-baked and seli-stylca apostles of new creeds and strange doc- tiines who will urge theou not to be con- tent, but fciiey will, I think; be leift to their ranting. For inyscii, 1 am also content. I expect the price of my weekly rat-on of coal to go up. I also .s.poot some increase on the present difficulty, already very consider- uole, which my wife has, though the half- cro.viis are in her purse, in gettuig out two hundredweights into the so-called coal-house. Nevermind! I shall have the real satisfaction of knowing that the man who howed it is getting more out of ii. If I could drop on him, I would say; Shake, old man! You don't work hall as long as I do, taking the year through, but you do your work in a dim, diirty hole, half-a-mile underground, and I do mine in a oosy study, with well-beloved book- aud pictured around me. Your work, too, b f 1 is easier than mine; for you, wiCh yout brawny arms and youi know ng eycs, can always whack out luuip? ot cc?l whea tLk ^eam is in front of you. ion do not kiuyw, my friend, the misery of leaving to whackil aiticles out of a head that doesn't seem to have an idea in it. If you tried that job for half-a-day, you'd make tracks back to the cage as if Old N-ck was alter YQü. Don't idealise my life, my (laar feiio\>. 1 don't idealise youia, and that s why l'ia very glad that more comfort, more day- light, and more leisure are to come into it. Make all the use you can of them. and see that it's the highest use, not the lowest. And now, get on with your job, and leave me to get on with mine, which is to explain, to miners and non-miners alike, precisely what has happened." A GREAT EXPERIMENT. For the first time a great group oi j workers has been parleying with the Government as to its wages, hours, am: conditions of employment, during peaw. i There were some fore&hadowings of thu- during the war, but the appointment ol the Coal Commission and the adoption of the Chairman's report aae, as the basis ol immediate action, new things. More than this, the findings of Mr. Justice Sankey have been approved of quite generally. So-rue people, who have nineteenth cen. tury minds in twentieth century bodies, are gmvely disquieted, because they think the process tainted with ruddy revolution, but they do not matter very much. This great experiment has come about almost by accident, which has been the usual way in which we have introouced great changes, For purposes of war. the mines were taken under Government con- tro!. While this control was still persist- ing, since the treaty of peace is not yet | signed though the state of peace has clearly been secured, the miners sent in their notices. They were practically notices to the Government, that is to the nation which the Government represents and in whose name it acts. This, then, is a great experiment, and the result of it is to be seen in the days j to come. ) In the proper sense of the term, the economist cannot make experiments. The chemist and the physicist can, because they can control the operation from start bo finish, and if the result is not what they wanted they can recombine the forces with which they work until they either get the results they are seeking or have ascertained by a process of exhaustion that they cannot be got. All this is im- poihle to the economist. Other people must always make hi. evneriniert? for him, and, wha<t is worse, he can never tell with exactness to what factors special sucesses or special failures are due; and when he can and do?s, he has to persuade people, and often very obstinate people, that he is fight. We can all see now that this gTcat experiment has been made. How many of us hare resolved to follow it w'th care and acumen? How many of us will be ready to abide by the teaching of the eN-Tw-riment, aftd change our viewsr | if necessary ? 1 THE MINER'S NEW EMPLOYER. I The upshot is that the miner has got a new employer—the People. Let us cut off all the frills and garnishings and. oome down to that essential bed-rock fact. As ) I have pointed out, the hewer's real em- ployer always has been the man who burned the coal he hewed. Some critics have smiled at that as very elementary I economics. I wish I could think that every cdtizen in these islands kmew so much economics as that. Others have hotly denied it, and declare) that their real employer was the min?-ownpr who p?id them their wages. There will be no nmd to argu? about it in future, for ?t is ?oing to bf not only olem^ntary economies but an elf-mental fact. The miner is to hive no excuse whatever for denying it Very nitich depends then on whether the miner charge his attitude to h:1'\ em- plovm-ent when lie changes Ms employer, P';r the miner ties open as things are to the charge that his zeal for the national- nation of the nines is purely selfi-b since all lie wants is an employer on whom he cm bring to hear the tfMnenclous P4D,we r of his organised vote, in order to get j hours, "Wages md conditions which he knows he could not get from private ownership. I And it is no use liim merely telling me that this is not the 1 shall pay no attention to what ho says, and very close ( attention to what he d. For hewers { as a forking group, it is p-oss^ttle to say with su?n?ient accuracy how much coal n  man he?a per hour, taking one man with another and One shift with another. I am gci? to ?atch th?t &t?'r? very c1ly.' and if it £"Us I shall judge the miner accordingly. If it remains steady, and yet for all that the new conditions aro j found to impose an unfair burden oil other groups of citizens, say cotton-ppiiiners or laundresses, I shall expect the m:ner to be prepared, at once and without hesita- tioTI, to consider them as they have this week considered him. i 11 THE PEOPLE'S NEW EMPLOYE. Again, it is of the utmost importance for the piople of tlr.s country to realise the new function which they have assumed. Every wise employer, and the nuisance is that they are relatively few in proportion, realises that it is the only J sound economy to pay an employe the I max:mum wage and then see that he earns it. Now if the people of this country are not prepared to adopt this maxim of SOUIl, economics, there is nothing but trouble ahead of us. Juct because I am quite prc- p:1rd to advocate tii, .on, I an* quite determined to lay hare in the most remorseless fashion, its obvijsur, and it, j insidious dangers. The glib fools who ten us straight off, and without five minutes' reflection, that it is hound to be a good thing are the wor-t enemies we have. The. I plain truth is that there are the weightiest possible reasons for suspecting thsst it will not be a good thing—which is putting the position quite rationally—and that we must not plunge into it with our eyes sh ut. The People, then, have got to insist that the ooal-miner shall not become a parn- srite. The miner supposes of coursc, that the only parasites in the coal-mining business a-m the "profiteers" and the r<)y,il ty-t-kers." But he may quite easily' become one himself, llow? By acting as a parasite. A parasite suck- nourishment from the organism to which it attaches itself and make no return foi it. The miner will do that, and nothing but that, if after sheltering himself from the cheeks and balances of open competi- tion by the new sytem, he takes ad van t'ge of it to absorb more than he is n, titled to. When capitalist-emy;Ioyers d-i that they aije saifl to form a Trust—and for years before the war America was g;nlmz with the prüblmn of checking gT-Tupl,T. Industrial parasitism thrives only in tin absence of the fresh air of free, conscious and intelligent competition. Poor women- I workers, for example, have never been | able to wield this sharp competitive weapon, and their callings have always j been parasitic. The Civil-Servant, shel- i tered from competition by security of tenure, has always tended to become para- heave the overstuffing and under- working of Government offices have always been notorious—apart from their obvious i tendency to do work that is not worth doing. I THE ONLY WAY. Having entered into this new relation. i the people on the one hand and t,he miners on the other, must be prepared to see it through, to a satisfactory solution. For. now that we have mad-c the experiment, we cannot go back on it and revert to the old forms. For in tliispai-ticitlar industry those forms have been tried and found wanting—which is where the main strength of the miners lay-aiid we are gocng to change them. In these new forms there will lie the danger that now sorts of industrial parasitism may arise. Miners and people ill ust combine to pre- vent that.

WRONG RELIGION. I Rev. Pedr Williams on I Modern Tendencies. Tit a powerful address on Sunday even- ing in St. Paul's Church, Swansea, the Rev. Pedr Williams answered the ques- tion: "Have we been giving people the wrong religion* The situation, lhe sai<V wal such as forced them to discover whether they had been giving the right religion. He submitted they had often given Its final ideas which euIJ represented grop- ings after light. The highest religion was in Christ, and they should give what is found in His spirit and words and deeds, in the whole lesson of His life. Religion, was not a matter of opinion or creed, but An attitude of the soul. WRONG RELIGION. We made most of outward sins, such as drunkenness or the wea kness of women He was lenient with these, but severe on those which were inward. The preacher' fceld that a sneer at goodness, or attribu- ting evil motives to people were blacker sins than any extraneous transgression Their canons of judgment, be said, werel wrong; they were giving the wrong re- ligion, the wrong emphasis. Had they not taught that we were to punished for sins tbal wolcoii7ft not help doing? WHAT MAKES RELIGION. They were religious. in proportion as thoy thought of others rather than them- selves. An acute thinker in the Colonies had said that there never was a more re- ligions age in all history than "tip presen*. In spite of the empty pews in front, IH thought that this wi,-ness vas true. For. there never was a time when considera- tion for others was more developed.

1 There have beon 25,278 application^ for the new of War Bondi. totalling £ 28,437,331. Last week's sales amounted to £ 4,7-5,413. For having smuggled opinm, Tan Tak. a Chinese seaman, was fined A:50 at New- port on Monday. ) Nw oases oi rabies are reported from South Wales. •

TOWN TALK. The Christian name of a defendant at Neath yesterday was li-obey. Lie ner.T raised a laugh! — :o:— The coming of Spring. A straw hnt was seen at Ammanford on Monday, being worn by a demoboc-d grocer. — -o:— I Who said it did not pay to eell miil.? j Some milk vendors who previously to-ok it around in carts are now to be se- n i taking it in motor cars!  There -?z a big rush for top coats on tb j part of those hardy spirits who have dis- pensed with them thus far-and have j the money to buy them. Like the Neath allotment holders, I Swansea plotters are also making tu-. ir I beds, but although they go from bed la I bed they get no real rest. —:o: — I An unsolicited: "Although I have had i my supply of "Leaders U increased." iaiU a Swansea uewsagent, "I still hnd that. I j can go on increasing it, as 1 sell out ia no time." — :0 j j "It will be a good thing when raticn- ing is done away with," said a Swan a. woman to her husband. She has found out that her butter alloWane-a I works out a.t 2s. 8d. per lb. J Applying for & separation order at I Neath on Monday on the grounds of per- bistent cruelty, the applicant was a-ked j if she bad any corroborative evidence, i She dramatically pointed to a lovely f black eye! A Swansea musician who is also a bit I of a politician says ho fails to umier- stand why Paderewski, who has chariu <i the whole civilised world wrth his music, cannot introduce a little harmony lihJl things up Poland way. -:0,- The new German field-gun which has come to Swansea made its advent Ct n- spicuous by its musical (?) notes as tiie bra he was appiied en rotrte. The squeak of the brake, indeed, bade fair to drown the music of the bi nd for a while. — :0.— A Swansea demobil sed soldier is feeling very raw over the fact that he paid X: t'(,r a pair of boots when he arrived home, and the next week saw a similar pair in the window markfd 10s. cheaper. TI, marvel of ¡teiq that the pr'ce had net increased ten shillings. The 1914 Star ':6 now ready for issiio. ALmong those eligible are certain bat- | talions of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wt-lee Borderers, Welsh Regiment, I and Monmourh Regiment, not forgett'i t ou r very own Sixth Welsh Territorial Regiment oc Of Working-man" writes-to say that he can sympathise with those people who are unable to obtain coal, as he is m. the same predicament. "But how is it." he asks, "that some people arc able to get tons of it in, which he saw quite re- cently outside a Swansea house. One of the signs that we are coming back to normal times—and one which is greatly PpT.)r"ntM-i q the fact that "ns can now go into a restaurant and as& for a cup of tea or coffee and have an allow- ance of snprar with it. The full supply of sugar came into vogue yesterday. 0: The rights of whiskey drinkers and tha art'zan clttss were defended at the j 111- manford Court on Monday by Mr. G of Swansea. There had been an excess charge for a drop of whiskey, which v,)3 i-tdmittedl,y good-biit not enough. The last phrase was that of the magistrates* clerk (Mr. W. L. Smith). :0:- Every class of the community, eaid M r. C T Euthen at Fforestfach. is ent! ■ I to a chance, at any rate, of living a « -ent, healthy, self-respecting life, ancl arrangements which make thr's possil !<» must lie within the reach of all, a-nd he regarde 1 as the perquisite of gentility. CHea-r! Hear!) — -r>:— In extending a helping hand to t1^ poor, don't do it with a patronising air. Don't make your less fortunate brother conscious of his poverty and his loneli- ness, but help him to realise that he is one with his comrades in life. Give him. a thrill of comradeship and sympathy.— The Rev. Joseph Jenkins, of the Taber- nacle, Llandovery. —!0: — The advent of summer time gave It Swansea district minister the oppor- tunity of administering a quiet rebuko (and deservedly so) to his congregation last Sunday evening. In announcing tbo change he facetiously reminded lala comers that if they forgot to -put tho clock forward, they would arrive for tho morning service in time to join in the singing of the parting hymn. —: O — In a loml hairdresser's saloon last night a customer was complaining that he was unable to get a house. He adderl that he had been on the look-out for one Uthis last three months, and was ctill In the same place. Cus.tomer No. two chimed in and said he had juist had a house after a four years' search, drew a remark from "No. one, "Well. I've got^i long vvay to go yet." -:0:- "1 don't want to thrust myself upon you," said the Rev. Joseph Jenkins, a candidate for the Board of GnardiafUI nt Llandovery. If I go in I go in a frtlO man—independent and under no tion to any of you. You may take n-ie on my merits. Honest, faithful, and pC- aeipsing a I t tie bit of time, I arn prepareel to invest it in the welfare of the poor people. If you don't want me, please say so. The iRev. Joseph Harry, pestor of the Salem Congregational Church, LIan. dovery, told the audience at a public meet- ing in that toiiii how he drove the pro- verbial carriage and -four throng,h an Act of Parliament. When he lived at Car- marthen he successfully fought for a ocat at the Town Council. His eppenonf* raised the objection that as he was ¡1. minister of the gospel he could not fO. He pointed, out to them that the prohibit- ing clause in the Act referred to a mID; ter in charge of a church. At the tijue he was only in charge of a school. -:0:- Little Willie rushed Into the d-nwiiig- rovm exclaiming excitedly, It Pad<i;» Tommy next door says the place h 2 father has come home from, Salonika, vvt -i. Ile i,-? n t rigbt. '?7 named after a CTma-i. He isn't right, is he?" Wiliie in tii6 tender years is not ab admirer of the fairer eex. still it is interesting to know that Salonika. ct, according to the commoner selling, Salonjca, lia; for 22 centuries borne A woman's name—a witness to the love a man had for his wife. Cassander. Kin; of Macodon, founded thr1 city in 315 B.C. He had married■'the sisler of Alexander the Great, and its a -mark of his affection for her he gave the place her name, Thessalonica.

AMUSEMENTS.  i l 'i Llll a l? I 1.30. TO.h I 'iT! 8.30. I Thone: Antral HARRY DAY ???6ST!tB hts La?st Kum'c?al Production, ? CT M  STu nTn „i SEVEN IN ALL. (A REAL SNAP), W;th the Entire Mise-en-Scene from the i ,w Prince of Waios' Theatre, London, ■5 Featuring f i KITTY COLYER, KITTY COLVER, I' Sapported by r* l BESSIE BURKE, J JOHN RORKE & SIDNEY BRAY, ^HOWARD V. CROPTON, DOROTHY ROSEVEARE. FtÁ R R Y GOULD, I A CHORUS OF GIRLS, AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA Under the Direction of Caffyn G. Baxter. _00_0' JIMMIE LESLIE, From the Comedy Theatre, London. V NEXT WEEK- t ALBERT DE COURVILLE'S Production, HERE AND THERE." ,¡ From the Empire, London. i t Swansea's Premier Picture House. Swansea's Premier Picture House. 'I. ¡ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I Jane Cowl in SPREADING DAWN, A Poignant Love Drama in Six Parts. COUNT BERNSTQRFF'S SECRETS, Episode 10: The Invasion of Cin-f-da. J JERRY'S WHIRLWIND FINISH. I Comedy. j THE MAYOR'S DECISION. A Thrilling Drama in 1 wo I'arts. jI FAT AND fRICKLc (Comedy) Two par PICTORIAL NEWS. Coming April 7th, the Great Fight, j WILDE v. LYNCH. Thursday Next-" The Mystic Hour. GWYN HALL, NEATH. Week Commencing 24tb March, 1919. j 4.15. TWICE NIGHTLY. 8.30. Matinee Saturday at 3. CHRIS TUS, 1 The Most Remarkable Film on Earth. 8,000 Feet. 10,000 Artistes, Soloist: Miss Frances Jewell. j PUBLIC NOTICES. FREEHOLD RESIDENCE FOR SALE, "T ready for occupation. PENTWYN," LOUGHOB, i Situated within about 250 yard-s ot ü. W.R. Station. bwamsea and Elanelly 'iiuecs pass entrance gate. Trams to Llaneliy within la minutes' walk. The Liouse statute. on uigii ground surrounded by trees, with UArden And Large UrcbLw-d. Area about 3 acres. Accommodation: j Ground Floor.—Lounge, Dining-rooiu, Drawing-room and Small Room (with French Window) attached; Kitchen (Eagle Range), and Scullery. First Floor-5 Bedrooms, Bathroom with new Porcelain Enamelled Bath and Lavll- tory Basin; w.o. attached. In Wing.-2 Maids' Rooms and Lava tory. Hot and Cold Water. Electric Lig&t. Separate Building.—Large Wash-himse, 7 Store-room, Larder, Fruit-room, Coal- t house, and w.c.; Office above Wash-house. Also Garage, Stable Accommodation for 1 1 Horse and Trap, with Saddle-room, Glass-houae, Tool-house, and Boat-house, i the latter being on the boundary closfc to AbiD River Loufehot. The Garden is very Jsiifbdi »tiVn The Orchard contains 12 to I ^13 dosKi 1, 'y Pair and Apple Trees. CaA be 6<t by appointment any day. If hot ni within the next few days, will be occupied by Owner. I' Apply T. P. JONES, BRYN-YR- :Ol!IN/- LLAKELLY; or RODERICK 1 AND RICHARDS. Solicitors, LLAN- ELLY. I SWANSEA- HOSPITAL. ¡ The ANNUAL MEETING! of •! WORKS GOVERNORS Will be held at the ) WORKING MEN'S CLUB, Alexandra-road, Swansea, oil Saturday, March 29th, 1919, at 4.30 p.m. Z W. D. HUGHES. Secretary. J* March 22nd, 1919. GLAMORGAN WAR AGRICULTURAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. fRACTÔRPï:õü'G.. DRIVERS. ? tMCTOR PLOUGH DRIVERS. -• N tibed to Tractors required by above Committee to Drive Motor Ploughs,—Apply, stating experience, to -Chief Executive Officer, 34. Park-plaoe, Cardiff. ,4> "TEMPORARY BUIUJTNGST" FOR SALE by TENDER, TWO WARDS — with Lavatories and Recreation Room at DAN-Y-COET) HOSPITAL, near Swan- sea; approximate area, 2,800 superficial i"fpet. For particulars and form of Tender apply ut the Hospital. (P-P I -1 I HUTCHINS a COn LIMITED, FOR FORD CASS Wholesale & Retail. i ti WIND STREET SWANSEA j i ?? ?   ? .??)???? ?/ ?? ?t?  ?/?<?? ??" ? Get 6t and keep 6t! Let the Krusc h cn ????"?? habit ?et hold of you—it's easy Half a teaspoon ful J — in hot water — before rising-every morning! That's a! Of all Chemists 1/6 per bottle. AH British ?j??? ?? ??w? SALES BY AUCTION. TUESDAY, APRIL 1st, 1919. 27, EixNALD PLACE, UPLANDS, SWANSEA. Astley Samus'i, F.A.I. 11 AS been lUoLi auted by Mrs. L. Ham to SE-Ul. bY PUBLIC AUG HON, the whole oi the Hous.iiold Furniture ANU EFFECTS, COlupnsmg ;-t.vllu;eJ. Ca.:¡ed ViANu- FUli tijuie, lUrLY and Co.), YVainui Bow-irouted {Sideboard, saddlebag Smile, Carpets, Rugs, Mats, Pictures, Orna- ments, Cut.e-ry and Plate, MalwguuJ Writing 'iabie, Maiui^any CLuiirs. Smoker's Cuoineft, PlaiiUeo, Uak Llaii Stand, btLatr Carpet, ami Jr-ons, Waluut Ovei mantel, quantity ui &oo&s, Iilusic Cabinet, Stool, Telescope Dining Table, Upholstered Easy Chaiiss, Curtains, Marble Clock anu Bronzes, Carved Oak Table, Mahogany Sheraton inluid Bedroom Suite, .vianugauy inlaid Be<i?tead, Black and Wire Mattresses, Overlay, l'eather Beds, Bolsleri, pillo.vs, Quilts, Linoleum, Kitchen Tables, Chairs. Kite!;en Uressex, Dinner and Tea Ware. Cooking Utensils, Lady's tto.» ai Eniielu Bicycle, Boy's Reaper Cycle, Lawn Mower, Gar-clen Tools, and numerour other valuable Furnishings. 20it. Sectional Poultry House, 2Mt Wired-in Run, 40 Head of Pullets (191L}. 5 Wyandotte Hens, 1 Minorca lien; aL good layers. Goods on view Monday, from 1.30 to 5 p.m. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock a.m. Terms cash. Auctioneer's Offices: King's Chambers. Swansea. Docks Tel. 266. Re J. J. CHAPPELL (Deceased). UPLANDS, SWANSEA. Mr. Trevor Evans, F.A.I. (Messrs. BOWEN & EVANS), IS instructed to offer for SALE by AUCTION, on the premises, at li a.m on THURSDAY, MARCH 27th, 1919, the very Valuable Leasehold Dwelling-House, Being No. 20. GLANBRY DAN-AVEN U L. UPLANDS. SWANSEA. Held 'or 3!i years from June 24th, 1907( at an Annua' Ground I-ont of H4 Is. The Property will be offered ov;th session on Completion of Purchase | Further particulars and Con .ti,)nL% of Sale may be obtained ui ine AactiMi.eev as below, or of C. H. Veweomb* Esq Solicitor, 41, Wind-street, Swansea. Immediately following the Sale. there will be offered a toiicc ion of Lee- ful Household Furniture, ■' including a good-conditioned PIANO. FORTE (by Cresswell, Ball ant Co., Lon- don), as well as an AAssorttit nt of othei Furnishings. The Premises and Fu.'ni'tire may be | inspected during the rwi jn.vs prior to! Sale, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Auction and Estate Offices: alubrious Chambers, Swausea. Preliminary Announcement. I THE WILLOWS," NEWTON ROAD. M UMBLES. SALE OF HIGH CLASS FURNITURE, PlANOFOi. i'E AND EFFECTS, Mr. Arthur S. T. Lucas IJ AS been instructed by Mr. A. S. Baldwin, who is leaving the Mumbles, to SELL by PUBLIC AUC- TION at the above Residence on THURS- DAY, the 27th day of MARCH, 1919, a valuable assortment of Furnishing Appointments, Including a tine Meoal Frame Piano- t torte, Dining, Drawing and Bedroom Furniture, the contents of Kitchens, Outside and Garden Effects, including Tools, Lawn Mowers, Garden Roller! Tanks, Shed, 8 Bee Hives, and acces- sories, etc., etc. Goods on view on day prior to Sale from 2 to 6 p.m. Terms: Cash. No Reserve. Sale oom- mencing at It SO a.m. For full detailed particulars see Auè- tion Poster and Cards. Arthur S. T. } Lucas, Auctioneer, 6, Rutland-street, j Swaneea, and at Mumbles. Established j 1885. Tel.: Central 230. (No. 1602) i SHAFTESBURY HALL, ST. HELEN'S ROAD. SWANSEA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26th 1919. Mr. Joseph Harris TytLL offer for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION at the above Hall and date a lare quantity of excellent and II substantial Household Furniture I AND OTIILR EFFECTS, the chief itcms comprising:—Handsome' Jacobean Waiu.H Su.euoard, two beauti- j fui Che?teruftd Suites, with high-back Chairs, Solid Mahogany Sideboard, with I Minor Back, Malwgüny Telescope Dining Table, Biack China Cabinet, excellent Drawing-rom Suite, Coppered Coai Vase, Revolving Music Stool, Leather Dining- room Suiif, ALL BUAt-S j' Pli/LAR BEDS 1 EAD, Wire M..Urosws, Wool Ovrrlays, Feather Beds, beautiful Inlaid Sheraton Bedroom Suite, Walnut and Oak ditto, Single Brass Bedstead, Kitchen Tables and Chairs, Splthd Dresser, Dinner and Tea Service, excel- lent Mahogany Hall Stand, together with a Full-Trichord Iron-iramed PIANOFORTE, i AMERICAN ORGAN, with 7 stops, LADY'S BICYCLE, Splendid GRAND- i FATHER'S CLOCK, NATIONAL CASH REGISTER TILL, well-made Rabbit j Hutch, and other articles too numerows i, to particularise. I Good on view morning of sale. j Sale to commence promptly at 11 o'clock ] a.m. Terms—CETSH. Auctioneer's Offices, 1. Georgc-6treet, swansea. Tel. No., 469 Docks.

DUTY TO THE DEAD. Bit-Badge Secretary's Com- plaint of Indifference. Mr. W. F. Franks, secretary of the Swansea Branch of the National Federa-! iion of Discharged and Demobilised Sa;lors and Soldiers, corapUvns that the -Governmen and the town of Swansea ] have not done the right thing by the ser- j vice men who have died since being dis- j charged or deinobli-d. He states that j the only thing supplied by the Govern-; ment for the burial is the gun carriage, j The Federation has its own band, and whenever possible this is in attendance. The members of the band have to lose work to he present, and their lose is made ¡ up from the fuhds of thf ted^ration On more than one t),casion the whole of I the btirial expense" of a deceased comrade have been paid by the Federation. Mr. Francis considers that the town, if ,Iiould help to de- not the Government, should help to de- fray these expenses out of gratitude to I the men who have fought. It was very unfair, he said, that the Federation should be expected to do so l much. I